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The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.
The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.


 
== Members ==
== Packagers/Reviewers/People interested ==
* [[User:Amitksaha|Amit Saha]]
* [[User:amani|A. Mani]]
* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
* [[ChristianIseli]]
* [[DejiAkingunola]]
* [[User:Denisarnaud |Denis Arnaud]]
* [[EdHill]]
* [[EdHill]]
* [[EricTanguy]]
* [[FabianAffolter]]
* [[GerardMilmeister]]
* [[JasonTibbitts]]
* [[JasonTibbitts]]
* [[DejiAkingunola]]
* [[User:Jcatumba|Jorge Catumba]]
* [[GerardMilmeister]]
* [[JoseMatos]]
* [[MarekMahut]]
* [[MichaelUghetto|Michael Ughetto]]
* [[Manan Dey]]
* [[NicolaSoranzo]]
* [[OrionPoplawski]]
* [[OrionPoplawski]]
* [[PatriceDumas]]
* [[PeterLemenkov]]
* [[PierreYvesChibon]]
* [[QuentinSpencer]]
* [[QuentinSpencer]]
* [[ChitleshGoorah]]
* [[User:Rathann|Dominik Mierzejewski]]
* [[JoseMatos]]
* [[RexDieter]]
* [[RexDieter]]
* [[PeterLemenkov]]
* [[SantoshKumar]]
* [[PatriceDumas]]
* [[FabianAffolter]]
* [[SergioPascual]]
* [[SergioPascual]]
* [[StuartCampbell]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[User:Alexlan|Alex Lancaster]]
* [[MarekMahut]]
* [[User:codysmith|Cody Smith ]]
* [[StuartCampbell]]
* [[User:Computience|Noah Lee]]
* [[User:kkofler|Kevin Kofler]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[PierreYvesChibon]]
* [[ChristianIseli]]
* [[EricTanguy]]
* [[User:Jjames|Jerry James]]
* [[User:Jjames|Jerry James]]
* [[NicolaSoranzo]]
* [[SantoshKumar]]
* [[User:AdamHuffman|Adam Huffman]]
* [[MichaelUghetto|Michael Ughetto]]
* [[User:Jussilehtola| Jussi Lehtola]]
* [[User:Jussilehtola| Jussi Lehtola]]
* [[User:Dreamer|Alexander C.]]
* [[User:Sebhtml|Sébastien Boisvert]]
 
* [[User:kkofler|Kevin Kofler]]
== Documentation ==
* [[User:mrceresa|Mario Ceresa]]
 
* [[User:naves|Hector Naves]]
* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]] - How to use lam and openmpi on the same system.
* [[User:Rathann|Dominik Mierzejewski]]
 
* [[User:Richardvj11|Richard Vijay]]
 
* [[User:supercyper|Chen Lei]]
== Packages awaiting review ==
* [[User:Vedranm|Vedran Miletić]]
* [http://root.cern.ch/ ROOT] - High energy physics data analysis package [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 #451744]
* [[User:ynemoy|Yaakov Nemoy]]
* [http://trilinos.sandia.gov/ Trilinos] - Collection of packages that support parallel linear algebra computations, solution of linear, non-linear and eigen systems of equations and related capabilities. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453703 #453703]
* [[User:yumas|Yumas Hankouri]]
* [http://www.open64.net open64] - The Open64 compiler collection [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470830 #470830]
* [[User:devinbost|Devin Bost]]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypar pypar] - Parallel programming with Python [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487521 #487521]
* [[User:Payas|Payas Awadhutkar]]
* [http://gri.sourceforge.net/ Gri] - GRI scientific plotting language [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484386 #484386]
* [[User:nbecker|Neal Becker]]
* [http://stxxl.sourceforge.net/  STXXL] - STXXL extra large C++ Standard Template Library implementation [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474787 #474787 ]
* [[user:circuitron|Amos Ezeme]]
* [http://www.scilab.org/ scilab ] - Scilab numerical computing and data processing environment [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472639 #472639]
* [[user:Sidh25|Siddharth Waikar]]
* [http://arma.sourceforge.net/ Armadillo ] - template C++ linear algebra library with good balance of speed/ease of use [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489686 #489686]
* [[user:raymondpete|Raymond Pete]]
 
* [[user:trycity|Imran Khan]]
== Potential Packages ==
* [[user:bat|Baptiste Robert]]
* [[Asana Math font]]
* [[user:evalero|Esbel Valero Orellana]]
* [http://www.gap-system.org/ GAP] - Computer algebra system - JasonTibbitts [http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpms/gap has a working and up-to-date GAP package], but it needs significant cleanup before it has a chance of passing review.
* [[User:markbruns|Mark Bruns]]
* [http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/repository.html#list Ideas of packages for bioinformatics base on bio-linux].
* [[User:j0hn|John Lockman]]
* [http://www.itk.org/ ITK] - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit - software system to support the [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html Visible Human Project]  
* [[User:dansci|Daniel Ścisłowski]]
* [http://www.sagemath.org SAGE] Mathematica-like open source mathematics software ([[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]] )
* [[User:jsandys|Jeff Sandys]]
* [http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/xpp/xpp.html XPP] - A tool for solving differential equations - Jason Tibbitts has a working package, but the program has such a poor interface that it may not be worth adding to the distro
* [[User:lupinix|Christian Dersch]]
* [http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/ Neuron] - A simulator of neurons and networks, useful for computational biology.  Packages are available upstream; shouldn't be terribly hard to package properly but requires a truly ancient user interface toolkit.
* [[User:besser82|Björn Esser]]
* [http://www.ballview.org/ BALL and BALLView] - A molecular modeling and visualization application and framework.
* [[User:laxmikantpm | Laxmikant P Metri]]
 
* [[User:Audrissie | Audriana Simms]]
== Bioinformatics WishList ==
* [[User:kookooss | Saeed Bahmanabadi]]
 
* [[User:gawbul | Steve Moss]]
* [[SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList| Bioinformatics WishList]]  
If you are interested in joining add yourself to the list.
 
 
== Available Packages ==


* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList|  List of scientific/engineering packages]]
== Ideas and proposals ==


* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE|SAGE packaging discussion]]
* [[UsingMultipleMPIs]] use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation
* [[Features/Ns3|ns-3 network simulator package]]
* Create Fedora Science spin: Community member, Amit Saha has kickstarted this effort. See [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Amitksaha his page] for updates.
* It might be interesting to borrow ideas from [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience Debian Science]


== List of applications we will NOT package ==
== Packages ==


* Non-commercial clauses in applications licenses render them invalid for inclusion into Fedora Package Collection.  Such apps are not Free and open source software and violates Clause 6 of the [http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php OSI definition]. See an example of such clause:
* [[SIGs/SciTech/PackageList|Package list]]  


=== Packages awaiting review ===


<pre>
Add '''FE-SCITECH''' to the Blocks field of any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla. (Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)
This software may be copied and distributed for educational, research, and not
for profit purposes provided that this copyright and statement are included in
all such copies. Other copyrights may also apply.
</pre>


[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505154 The tracker is in Bugzilla].


{| border="1"
== Communication ==
|-
| '''Name''' || '''Description''' || '''Why it won't be packaged'''
|-
| [http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ VMD] || Molecular Visualization and Analysis Package || Non-Free license
|-
| [http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/fasta_www2/fasta_down.shtml fasta2 and fasta3] || The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences || [http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/COPYRIGHT License] contains non-commercial clause
|-
| foo || bar app || patented
|}


== Ideas/Proposals ==
* Mailing list:{{fplist|scitech}}
* [[SIGs/SciTech/SAGE| SAGE packaging discussion]]
* {{fpchat|#fedora-science}} on the freenode IRC network
* MPI work:
* Use environment-modules to improve the "MPI alternatives" situation -- please see the proposal at the bottom of [[EdHill]]


[[Category:Packaging SIGs]]
[[Category:Packaging SIGs]]

Revision as of 18:12, 19 April 2014

Fedora Science and Technology SIG

Mission

The purpose of the Fedora Science and Technology SIG is to improve the number and quality of packages available for scientific and technical users.

Members

If you are interested in joining add yourself to the list.

Ideas and proposals

Packages

Packages awaiting review

Add FE-SCITECH to the Blocks field of any Science/Technology related review in Bugzilla. (Remember to remove it once the review is passed.)

The tracker is in Bugzilla.

Communication

Subcategories

This category has only the following subcategory.

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